https://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=75233 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question?page=2#dis-post-416930 granny Mar 21, 2012, 08:30 AM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question?page=2#dis-post-416930 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417258
My domain, sottwell.com, is registered with Hover https://www.hover.com/

My site is physically hosted with Bluehost http://www.bluehost.com/

There are special servers called DNS (Domain Name Server) all over the world to map domain names (like sottwell.com) to the actual address of the server where it physically lives (69.89.31.126) so you don't have to remember that address when you want to go to my site.

The "http" part of an address is the "protocol"; it means HyperText Transfer Protocol. When you put an address in your browser, it first goes to the special DNS servers to get the address of the domain. Then it requests a page from that address (much like getting someone's phone number from 411 then ringing their phone using the number). The physical server's operating system sees that this is an HTTP request, so it sends it to its web server program. The web server program will "serve" the requested page.

In the case of MODx, the web server fetches the index.php file from the server, and it knows that .php is a script that has to be processed. So the MODx scripts get run, and MODx generates the page from what you put in the Manager about that page, and the server sends it off to your browser.]]> sottwell Mar 23, 2012, 09:10 AM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417258 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417242 granny Mar 23, 2012, 07:46 AM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417242 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417191 http://yourdomain.com/setup" (without the quote marks).

In my case, since I have MAMP installed on my Mac, I use "http://localhost/setup" while on my hosted development server I put "http://dev.sottwell.com/setup"
]]> sottwell Mar 22, 2012, 06:16 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417191 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417187 loading your web browser and running the setup script by navigating to the setup/ folder.

Sorry but I did say I was a "beginner"......]]> granny Mar 22, 2012, 05:01 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417187 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417182 http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Basic+Installation]]> sottwell Mar 22, 2012, 04:37 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417182 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417177 granny Mar 22, 2012, 04:00 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-417177 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-416997 sottwell Mar 21, 2012, 03:53 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-416997 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-416986 granny Mar 21, 2012, 02:27 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-416986 https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-416937
The best way to handle a store is to subscribe to FoxyCart, but there are other options as well. I rather like the JQuery JShop application.

You can look over my site, which is Evo; the guest manager login is guest - guestuser. I also cover most of how Evo works in the MODx From the Inside section of the site.]]> sottwell Mar 21, 2012, 09:10 AM https://forums.modx.com/thread/75233/beginner-question#dis-post-416937